Slooooooooow

[CBlack]

The forum has been really slow in responding to anything. And it seems to have gotten worse.



What's going on?

 

[HBarlow]

I can't recall the number of posts I've drafted, sometimes lengthy ones, and then hit "POST" and the website shuts down. When that happens I have found no way to recover what I've spent minutes writing. The text can't be copied or recovered. It is simply lost. That gets pretty aggravating.

 

[softailer]

Hey Harv, thanks for all your input! I for one appreciate your insight and info. Please keep it up!!! SOFTAILER

 

[HBarlow]

Hey Harv, thanks for all your input! I for one appreciate your insight and info. Please keep it up!!! SOFTAILER

Thanks, Softailer.

 

[Bill Stockard]

I can't recall the number of posts I've drafted, sometimes lengthy ones, and then hit "POST" and the website shuts down. When that happens I have found no way to recover what I've spent minutes writing. The text can't be copied or recovered. It is simply lost. That gets pretty aggravating.

I frequently write replies in M/S Word and copy and paste to the forum. I don't close the Word program until I leave the forum. If the post disappears, it's still on Word to copy again. My wife posts quite a bit on Facebook and she does the same thing since they lose posts regularly. There's another forum I frequent that uses the same software as TDR and I've had similar problems with it also. It's not just the TDR forum...

Bill

 

[HBarlow]

Bill,

Not limited to the TDR forum but apparently limited to the software TDR and some other websites use or the poor interface between that software and Microsoft Word 7 in my case. Don't know what operating software others are using. I didn't have the problem until immediately after TDR changed over to this software and don't remember seeing posts from others regarding the same issue.

 

[CBlack]

I'm a member of several forums. This is the only one where I have issues like the ones experienced on here. And it's only since they changed to the new format.

Before, it was the best. ZERO issues.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

We had a hardware failure on our secondary database server yesterday. That server off loads large search queries so that the tables don't get locked for running the rest of the site and for writes. When it's off line like that (which is extremely rare) it's extra slow until I flip a switch to take it off line. It's off line right now and we're having it looked at so the site will be somewhat slower than normal while that gets fixed but we are on it. I apologize for the inconvenience.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

On this site, when I type out lengthier posts, I've formed the habit of saving the post to PC memory before I hit the "post" key - it's saved me retyping at least several times here in the last few weeks...

Yeah, Steve, this can at times be annoying, but it's actually pretty small stuff in the overall scheme of daily events, and I'm sure it WILL eventually all get sorted out - thanks for your attention and behind the scenes work!